Tennessee HeartStrings Band returns to Renaissance Center Nov. 5

Release Date: 10/24/2005. Expired: 11/5/2005

The Tennessee HeartStrings Band has been a little busy since its January performance at The Renaissance Center. In just September and October, the all-woman bluegrass band has been playing at Silver Dollar City in Branson, the Kansas State Fair, the Walnut Valley Festival, the International Bluegrass Music Association convention and festivals in North Carolina and Mississippi, among other dates.

Sandwiched among all that traveling, the Nashville-based band returns closer to home with an encore appearance at The Renaissance Center in Dickson on Saturday, Nov. 5. Tickets for the 7 p.m. concert in the Performance Hall are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $6 for children under 13.

In addition to their concert, members of Tennessee HeartStrings Band will present songwriting/vocal and bluegrass fiddle workshops at The Renaissance Center that day.

Since first taking the stage on Valentine’s Day 2001, Tennessee HeartStrings Band has been growing in popularity across the country with shows characterized by tight vocal harmonies and an energetic stage performance.

Founding member Karen Pendley is carrying on the fiddling tradition of her father, Carl Joyner. She began her country music career at Country Adventures Theater in North Carolina, where she performed for eight years as a featured vocalist and instrumentalist. She opened shows for Reba McEntire, Tanya Tucker, Lori Morgan, Emmylou Harris, Steve Wariner, Ronnie Milsap, Gene Watson, Sawyer Brown, Ronnie McDowell, Mel Tillis and Sweethearts of the Rodeo, among others.

After moving to Nashville in 1991, Pendley toured the country with the Nashville Country Music Revue, was staff fiddler and vocalist at the Nashville Palace and performed at Opryland. She has toured with Mindy McCready, Julie Reeves and Lila McCann and backed up Grand Ole Opry stars such as Ricky Van Shelton, Connie Smith, Vern Gosdin, Box Car Willie, Little Jimmy Dickens, Bill Anderson and the late Johnny Russell.

Pendley will offer a bluegrass fiddle workshop 12-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5. Tuition is $40. She is an experienced and certified string educator who can teach the different styles of classical, country and bluegrass fiddle.

Pendley also will present a songwriting/vocal workshop 2:30-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5. Tuition is $30. The workshop will focus on instruction in songwriting, vocals, harmony and stage presence.

To register for one or both of the workshops, call (615)740-5545.

For more information on the Tennessee HeartStrings Band concert at The Renaissance Center, call (615)740-5600. To purchase tickets, call (615)740-5570.

The Renaissance Center is a fine arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.

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